ive just copied n pasted this from sumwhere else but it shud work for backgrounds as well.
this was written to help people get all types of graphics into fm07.
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<LI>Go into My Documents and locate the Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2007 folder.
<LI>Secondly Create a folder called "Graphics".
<LI>Inside this folder, you can either just paste everything you download into it, or sort them into the following, Logos, Facepacks, Kits, backgrounds,and Others. Making it even easier for you to insert them.
<LI>Then once you have put all the graphics into this folder, load up FM 07.
<LI>Go into preferences and down the menu panel, you will find "Display & Sound" click on it.
<LI>You will find the following options "Skin Cache" & "Always Reload Skin On Confirm".
<LI>Untick the "Skin Cache" option.
<LI>Tick the "Always Reload Skin On Confirm".
then make sure 'show backgrounds" is ticked
then hit confirm in the bottom left hand corner.then all shud be their
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